Rare & Beautiful

Orchids are truly beautiful flowers, but there are some rare orchids which are particularly sought after. Of all the rare orchids that one can choose from, the Phal amboinesis ‘flava’ which is the rare albino variety of the Phal amboinesis ‘yellow’. These are known as monopodial orchids which have stems that grow indefinitely.

Glass-wing Butterflies Live in South America. A butterfly with transparent wings is rare and beautiful.

As delicate as finely blown glass, the presence of this rare tropical gem is used by jungle observers as an indication of high habitat quality. Rivaling the refined beauty of a stained glass window, the translucent wings of the Glasswing butterfly shimmer in the sunlight like polished panes of turquoise, orange, green, and red.

All things beautiful do not have to be full of color to be noticed.

In life, that which is unnoticed has the most power.

A stocky finch of mature coniferous forests, the Red Crossbill is dependent on the seed cones that are its main food. Its peculiar bill allows it access to the seeds, and it will breed whenever it finds areas with an abundance of cones. It may wander widely between years to find a good cone crop.

Parrotfish are mostly tropical, perciform marine fish of the family Scaridae. Abundant on shallow reefs of the Red Sea, Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, the parrotfish family contains ten genera and about 90 species.

Black Baccara is a Hybrid Tea Rose with luxurious, deep red blooms of the highest quality. Give it pride of place in your border is one of the rarest breed of roses.

What is a rare fruit? My definition of a rare fruit is any fruit that is unusual, undeveloped, unexploited, or a new variety – normally grown in tropical or sub-tropical climate regions. So, a hard-to-find apple, plum, or peach, is less of a rare fruit than a ‘common’ mango. However, deciduous fruit trees are frequently a topic, in the newsletter, if they will produce in warm-winter climates.’Keitt’ is a Florida selection which has become one of the world’s most outstanding mangos. Excellent eating quality, disease resistance, productivity, and ripening time are some of the features of this four to five pound goliath. While the fruit are extremely disease resistant, the juvenile trees are extremely difficult to grow due to disease problems. For that reason we have suspended production. The fruit ripens from August to October.

How cool would it be to go out for lunch, order some clams, and bite in to a pearl potentially worth thousands of dollars?

A Lake Worth, Florida man was spending a day at the beach with his wife when he decided that a nice meal at Dave’s Last Resort was a good idea. About half way through his meal he discovered just how good of an idea it really was. He bit down in to a rare purple pearl.

Natural pearls are rare and finding one of such a color makes it even more so. For a $10 lunch his find could be worth thousands, so the Brocks plan to have the pearl appraised and have said they will sell it if it is valuable.

All I know is that I’ll have what he’s having.

The pink diamond is the world’s most rare and valuable diamond.The Argyle mine is the world’s foremost source of unrivalled intense pink diamonds, producing 95% of the world’s supply. However, an extremely small proportion of Argyle Diamonds production is Pink colour, in fact less than one tenth of 1% is classified Pink.
The legend of Argyle pink diamond has grown over the past ten years. At the 1989 Christie’s auction in New York a 3.14 carat Argyle pink sold for $1,510,000. Privately, Argyle has sold pink diamonds for up to $1 million a carat.

Agalychnis annae, commonly known as either the Blue-Sided Leaf Frog or the Yellow-Eyed Leaf Frog, is an endangered tree frog of the Hylidae family native to Costa Rica.THEY face extinction in their ideal home – the rain forests of Costa Rica, Central America.
But 5,400 miles away in Manchester 300 of the yellow-eyed leaf frogs have just been bred at the Manchester Museum’s reptile and amphibian department.

Hapalopsittaca fuertesi, fuertes parrot or the indigo-winged parrot, was first discovered in the Central Andes in 1911. It was never photographed. It was then “lost”. It has never been held in captivity, and almost nothing is known about its breeding and feeding habits. There was an unconfirmed sighting by a ornithologist in 1989, but no photographs were taken

~ by moonaai on March 23, 2009.